LLMs as Index Funds - by Venkatesh Rao - Contraptions
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Language, Homogenization, and the Search for Alpha
Opt-in section of the Contraptions Newsletter devoted to backgrounders, notes, and experiments cooked up with AI assistance. Serving up elevated slop 1-2 times a week. Cooking time of this one: 1 hour. Recipe at end. If you only want my hand-crafted writing, you can unsubscribe from this section. In the late 20th century, something curious began to happen with baby names in the United States. For decades, mass broadcast media—television, film, radio—had helped homogenize naming conventions. A handful of names dominated birth certificates across the country. “Jennifer,” “Michael,” “Lisa,”…
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